Meet The Team
Moumita Majumdar
Moumita Majumdar is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Centre for Energy Science at Indian Institute of Science Education Research (IISER) Pune, India, since November 2025.
She obtained PhD for her research on Transition-Metal Multiply Bonded Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera. Then she joined as Assistant Professor (specially appointed) in the research group of Prof. Kazushi Mashima, Osaka University, Japan, where she has worked on Transition-Metal Cluster Catalysis. In October 2011, she moved to Germany for her second Post-Doctoral stint in the research group of Prof. Dr. David Scheschkewitz, Saarland University, where she has gained expertise in Low-Valent Silicon Chemistry and their applications. She joined as an Assistant Professor at IISER Pune in October 2014. She served as an Associate Professor during the period May 2020 - Oct 2025. Her research interests are Low-Valent Main Group Compounds in catalysis and materials applications.
Professional Activities and Achievements
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Recipient of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Bronze Medal in 2024
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LN Mathur-Asima Chatterjee Women Scientist Award, Indian Chemical Society, 2023
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Selected in She Is - 75 Women in Chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry and The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, 2023
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Recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for experienced researchers, 2022
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Editorial Advisory Board Member, Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2023-2025
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Recipient of SERB-POWER Fellowship 2022
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Member of the International Advisory Board, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, Wiley-VCH from 2022
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Member of Early Career Advisory Board, ChemistryOpen, Wiley-VCH from 2022
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Chem. Comm. Emerging Investigator, 2020
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DFG Collaborative Research Grant, 2019-2022.
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'Erasmus+ International Mobility Program, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2019.
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New Talent: Asia Pacific, Dalton Trans,. 2019
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'Best Short Lecture Award' in 17th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry (ISOS), Berlin, 2014.
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'CREST Fellowship' (Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology), Osaka University, Japan, 2011.
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'Toyota Fellowship', Osaka University, Japan, 2010.
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Travel Grant for Germany, Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, 2008.
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Travel Grant for Germany, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, 2008.
Rahul Deb
PhD Student
MSc.: Vidyasagar University (2018)
Date of joining: August 2020
Research Topic: Small molecule activation and photophysical studies
Niranjan Patel
PhD Student
MSc.: Sardar Patel University (2019)
Date of joining: August 2020
Research Topic: Element-element cooperativity and catalysis
Nilanjana Mukherjee
PhD Student
MSc.: University of Calcutta (2021)
Date of joining: January 2022
Research topic: Polycationic frameworks
Souvik Khan
PhD Student
MSc. : University of Calcutta (2020)
Year of joining PhD: Aug 2022
Topic of research: Lewis acid catalysis
Akanksha Kumari
PhD Student
MSc.: Udai Pratap College (2020)
Date of joining: January 2023
Research topic- Multiply charged cationic dimers and clusters
Diya Sengupta
PhD Student
MSc.: University of Calcutta (2021)
Date of joining: August 2023
Research topic: Photo-redox chemistry
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Jasmita Bhoi
PhD Student
BS-MS: IISER Berhampur (2022)
Date of joining: January 2024
Research topic: Photocatalysis
Mohana Pramanik
PhD Student
MSc.: West Bengal State University (2023)
Date of joining: January 2026
Sumon Dutta
PhD Student
MSc.: IIT Bhubaneshwar (2025)
Date of joining: January 2026
Upal Pramanick
BS-MS Student
Year of Program: 5th year BS-MS
Research topic: Structural Constraint and Photophysical studies
Sayak Das
MS Student
Year of program: 2nd year MSc
Research topic: Multiply charged cationic dimers
Shifana C. P.
Project Student
BS-MS: IISER Tirupati (2020-2025)
Research topic: Element-element cooperativity
Akash Waghamare
PhD Student
MSc.: Dr. BAMU, Aurangabad (2017)
Research topic: Organoboron and organosilicon compounds in catalysis
Group Alumni
PhD Thesis
Dr. Ravindra K. Raut
Current Position: Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, IIT Jodhpur
Dr. Akula Naveenkumar
Current Position: Lead Engineer, Energy Systems, Mahindra Research Valley, Mahindra & Mahindra, Chennai
Dr. Padmini Sahoo
(PhD awarded in 2023)
Dr. Vikas Kumar
(PhD awarded in 2025)
Purva Chibde
(Viva Voce to be conducted)
MS Thesis
Mr. Satyabrata Das
Current Position: PhD in
Prof. Dr. David Scheschkewitz's group, Saarland-University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Mr. Hritwik Haldar
Current Position: PhD in
Prof. Christopher "Kit" Cummins's group, MIT, USA
Mr. Ankan Kundu
Current Position: PhD in University of California, Davis, USA
Mr. P. Balakrishna
Current Position: PhD in
Prof. Didier Bourissou's group, University of Toulouse, France
Interns
Mr. Roshayed Ali Laskar (IIT Kanpur)
Ms. Supriya Sinha (IIT Kharagpur)
Mr. Subhadeep Bera (NISER Bhubaneshwar)
Mr. Deepak Ranjan Pradhan (NISER Bhubaneshwar)
Mr. Bhaskar Saha (IISER Pune)
Mr. Vyshnav Mohan (IISER Pune)
Mr. Devesh Maurya (IISER Pune)
Ms. Dipti Chimnapure (IISER Pune)
Ms. Pooja Rani (IISER Pune)
Mr. Debotrayo Roy (IISER Pune)
Mr. Ankit Kumar (IISER Pune)
Project Assistants
Mr. Joy Karmakar
Mr. Shaikh Saddam Shoukat Ali
Mr. Akash Ghosh